What specific technique would "run them all together"?
UnifiedRecentChanges? InterWikiSearch? SisterSites? Something else?
http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiWeb (01)
I certainly don't agree that these techniques make sense when applied
across a wide universe of wikis. But for a "creative network" (size<12)
the problem might not be as bad. Although the breadth of scope of any
human's interests can certainly cause problems.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/2003/02/12.html#a284 (02)
This actually raises the idea of using messier/richer techniques for
sloppy association of sub-wikis. "Apply the WikiWeb techniques above to
the nodes in RossM's wiki that are 'close' to the SocialSoftware node,
to the nodes in JackS's wiki that are 'close' to the EducationTheory
node...." You could use a linki-distance calculation, or something based
on fulltext analysis... (03)
Another idea is to allow stupid linking, but use a richer interface that
would make "false" matches more obvious. Say a TouchGraph/IdeaGraph view
that showed your Cast node linking to PeterJ's Cast node, but you would
see that PeterJ's other nodes connected to Cast were about
Metalsmithing, while your nodes close to Cast were about Theater. So
you'd just ignore that signal. (04)
Jack Park wrote: (05)
> At 02:42 PM 5/13/2003, John Sechrest wrote:
>
>> So I hypothosize that:
>>
>> a) You can not take widely distributed wiki's in different contexts
>> and run them all together into the same wiki and have something
>> meaningful result.
>
>
> I am pleased to see that statement result from an exhaustive expansion
> on notions of context and scope. I like to think that "a)" is an
> expression of the reason I dropped using WikiWords as URL-bait when I
> rewrote my project to enforce the context and scope afforded by
> associations, to render a database that exists as if it is already a
> topic map with merged or mergeable topics.
> (06)
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